Dave Vellante

Stu Miniman

Brian Gracely

Jeff Frick

Kickoff Day 1
John Furrier and Dave Vellante Kickoff Day 1 of VMworld 2015. They discussed the transformation of VMware in the last six years, the cloud impact on VMware and diversifying beyond the hypervisor. They also shared thoughts on managing risk and lightweight cloud, end-to-end solution strategy and covering the startup ecosystem.

Kickoff Day 1: Part 2
John Furrier and Dave Vellante Kickoff Day 1 of VMworld 2015. They discussed acquisitions and expanding the TAM and investors and stock valuation.

Director Set Wrap Up Day 1
Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely Wrap Up day 1 of VMworld 2015. They shared their first impressions, hyper-converge and STDC, the hybrid cloud messaging and the growth rates for public cloud revenues. They also discussed how hyper-converge helps with DevOps, what’s going on with VMware and the seismic shifts on the hardware side.

Wrap Up Day 1
John Furrier and Dave Vellante Wrap Up day 1 of VMworld 2015. They talked about the first VMworld with high stakes, how the public cloud is a blind spot and the conflict within VMware. They also discussed the vision of the hybrid cloud, what will happen if companies take APIs too far and whether EMC is getting thrown under the bus.

Wrap Up Day 2
John Furrier, Dave Vellante, Stu Miniman, & Brian Gracely wrap up day 2 of VMworld 2015. They discussed how Pat Gelsinger is laying out the vision for the future, the phenomenal with the public cloud and going into uncharted waters. They also talked about the trends that infrastructure developers need to be aware of, whether Pat Gelsinger wants more freedom and John Furrier’s individual segments with VCs.

Kickoff Day 3 Director Set
Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely kickoff day 3 of VMworld 2015. They discussed what’s happening in the developer community, structured vs. unstructured platforms and how containers plus virtualization is a reality. They also talked about Pat Gelsinger’s 30-year vision and how to leverage the content from a show as large as VMworld.

Kickoff Day 3
John Furrier, Dave Vellante, and George Gilbert kickoff Day 3 of VMworld 2015. They shared the highlights from previous night, George Gilbert’s take on the stages of big data and how Spark fits into the picture. They also discussed the foundation of the next generation of data centers and who is winning: Spark or Hadoop.

Final Wrap Up
John Furrier, Dave Vellante, Stu Miniman, and Brian Gracely provide a final wrap up of VMworld 2015. They discussed what’s happening with VMware in building an ecosystem, whether VMware can scale and how VMware is moving into the developer space. They also chatted about if VMware will buy EMC, new opportunities from VMworld and how big of a force Amazon Web Services has become.

*Scheduled Guests

Yogesh Agrawal
VP Solutions, Alliances & Tech Marketing, HP Storage

Interview Overview
Yogesh Agrawal stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the strategy of HP Storage, including within the system defined design center and the Software Defined element to the design center. He provided insight into the disruption happening within the storage industry.

This was Yogesh’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Randy Arseneau
CMO, Infinidat

Interview Overview
Randy Arseneau and Brian Carmody stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the growth of Infinidat and what they focus on. They provided insight into how they build on foundational technologies and deliver to a broad customer base.

Eric Bassier
Marketing Director, Quantum

Interview Overview
Eric Bassier stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the Quantum focuses on storage for demanding workflows, how they are showcasing virtualization storage solutions and implementing unique real-time tiering. He also provided insight on Quantum’s partnership with Veeam, archiving unstructured data and the workflow approach to storage.

This was Eric’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Jay Benson
Manager, IT Architecture, eHealth Saskatchewan

Interview Overview
Jay Benson stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the medical data that eHealth Saskatchewan is managing. He provided insight into the drivers and pressures around government funded health care to drive down costs and ensure better quality of care for patients and the technology involved to do this.

Brian Biles
CEO/Co-Founder, Datrium

Interview Overview
Brian Biles stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about how Datrium is fundamentally different from other storage solutions. He provided insight into the market gap on scalable storage for VM’s.

This was Brian’s first time stopping by theCUBE.

Peter Bookman
Global Strategist, Sphere3D

Interview Overview
Peter Bookman stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about focusing on individual workloads and how the team has filled out at Sphere3D. He provided insight into why hyperconverged solutions are really for generalized workloads and the appliances they have for the education industry.

Brian Carmody
CTO, Infinidat

Interview Overview
Brian Carmody and Randy Arseneau stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the growth of Infinidat and what they focus on. They provided insight into how they build on foundational technologies and deliver to a broad customer base.

This was Brian’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Sheryl Chamberlain
Group VP, Global Partner Executive, Capgemini

Interview Overview
Sheryl Chamberlain and Paul Strong stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about Vm Women’s Leadership Program, the state of the conversation about woman leadership and the diversity project. They provided insight into the cultural shift, migration between careers and what they would change in elementary schools.

Patrick Chanezon
Member of Technical Staff, Docker

Interview Overview
Patrick Chanezon stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about the recent announcements about Docker, including how images and containers will be created within Docker. He provided insight into where Docker sits within VMware.

Sakthi Chandra
Director of Solutions Marketing, EMC XtremIO

Interview Overview
Sakthi Chandra and Pablo Roesch stopped by theCUBe and chatted with Dave Vellante about the performance labs that allow conference attendees use their products. They provided insight into the infrastructure to run the labs and what EMC XtremIO is working on next.

Jerry Chen
Partner, Greylock

Interview Overview
Jerry Chen stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about how Docker is pioneering a new way to think about application deployment, what cloud native really means and why hybrid cloud is what you want the cloud to be. He also provided insight into his involvement in security, enterprise app and Cloudera, investment opportunities within the VMware ecosystem and decreasing the cost of building a data center cloud at scale.

Jay Chitnis
Director of Mobility & End User Solutions, EMC

Interview Overview
Jay Chitnis stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about end user computing and deploying consistently. He provided insight into what EMC’s stack looks like and how they have optimized it around performance and taken a holistic view.

This was Jay’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Tom Cook
CEO, Permabit

Interview Overview
Tom Cook stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about what Permabit is currently working on and the many leaders they are working with. He provided insight into how Flash has become significant and why products that focus on data reduction are winning in the market place.

Terry Cunningham
CEO, Springpath

Interview Overview
Terry Cunningham stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about what SpringPath does and how it’s solving storage problems. He provided insight into why software is changing how your approach storage and the first movers.

This was Terry’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Peter Cutts
Vice President, EMC Cloud Solutions

Interview Overview
Peter Cutts stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about how many solutions are tying in with EMC Cloud Solutions and why they have invested more in the Federation. He provided insight into the many times they see customers saving thousands of dollars by working with the solutions within the Federation and fit the security models for customers to execute on quickly.

David Davis
Co-Founder, ActualTech Media

Interview Overview
David Davis and Scott Lowe stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about Scott’s new book The Gorilla Guide, what ActualTech Media is doing within the market and how they are educating people about what they see in the industry. They provided insight into how people have changed roles within companies and conversations about hyperconverged solutions.

This was David’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Kevin Deierling
VP of Marketing, Mellanox

Interview Overview
Kevin Deierling stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about how Mellanox moves data quickly. He provided insight into high performance computing, the storage involved and what happens when you run out of CPU.

This was Kevin’s first time on theCUBE!

Dom Delfino
SVP, WW Systems Engineers, VMware NSBU

Interview Overview
Dom Delfino stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Graceley about why networking is so important with VMware. He provided insight into the benefits of networking at the host level and the announcement of 6.2.

Chris Drake
CEO, Armor

Interview Overview
Chris Drake stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about what he learned about security through building some of the world’s first big websites. He provided insight into the security measures they build in websites and what network virtualization does to drive security.

Interview Overview
Bob Dussault and Greg Smith stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about infrastructure challanges at Hallmark before Nutanix, how they transitioned to Nutanix and the reason for hyper converged. They provided insight into what to consider when going through this type of transition, changes in security and the DevOps story from Nutanix.

This was Bob’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Carl Eschenbach
President and COO, VMware

Interview Overview
Carl Eschenbach stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about his opening keynote address. He provided insight into how VMware is taking their vision to customers and the multiple audiences they are talking with, including networking and security teams.

Charles Fan
SVP/GM Storage and Availability, VMware

Interview Overview: Charles Fan and Ed Walsh
Charles Fan and Ed Walsh stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the keynote addresses, the relationship between cataloging and developing and simplyfying the work flows. They provided insight into the state of automated management, how Catalogic fits into VMware’s storage strategy and the amount of data about data.

Interview Overview
Charles Fan stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about VMware’s Storage Business Unit. He provided insight into how they are solely focused on software engineering and the products they have created.

This was Charles’ first time visiting theCUBE.

Dustin Fennell
Former Vice President & CIO, Mission Community Hospital

Interview Overview
Dustin Fennell and George Teixeira stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the CIO perspective, the evolution of architecture and why Dustin moved to DataCore. They provided insight into the current trends in hyperconvergence, where VMware VSAN stands and how having fewer resources changes an environment.

This was Dustin’s first time visiting theCUBE.

David Flynn
CTO, Primary Data

Interview Overview
David Flynn stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about the success of Primary Data and what they are doing. He provided insight into how they are solving data management issues within the cloud and why the data silo has come to an end.

Pat Gelsinger
CEO, VMware

Interview Overview
Pat Gelsinger stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about the visionary nature of his keynote address, why hybrid cloud is a culmination of capabilities, how Moore’s Law applies to the cloud and steps to creating the next phase of innovation. He provided insight into why they are committed to a heterogeneous management strategy, VMware’s role in powering consumer technologies and bringing together development and operations.

Bina Hallman
Vice President, IBM Storage and Software Defined Systems

Interview Overview
Bina Hallman and Ed Walsh stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about what IBM and Catalogic Software have brought to the conference. They provided insight into the conversations with customers and the problems they are helping to solve and what Catalogic Software and IBM are doing together.

This was Bina’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Steve Herrod
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Interview Overview
Steve Herrod stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about the DevOps focusing and the new opportunities for developers. He provided insight into the concept of infrastructure as code and his report card for how VMware is doing.

Interview Overview
Eric Herzog stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about IBM’s partnership with Cisco, whether the SAN volume controller was gold standard and how TSM storage capability helped you go to market. He provided insight into talk about the cloud, latency storage and capacity storage and how IBM has all the pieces.

Interview Overview: Eric Herzog and Mike Kuhn
Eric Herzog and Mike Kuhn stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about expanding the Flash porfolio and integrating by design, charging a fair price for Flash and delivering hybrid and all-Flash solutions. They provided insight on the enterprise-ready software stack, how IBM is all about the right tool for the job and the relationship with Catalogic.

Bask Iyer
SVP and CIO, VMware

Interview Overview
Bask Iyer stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about why he started working at VMware. He provided insight into balancing the needs, trying to develop fast and being aware of the fads and trends and the companies who are riding the cloud and mobile waves.

This was Bask’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Christos Karamanolis
CTO and Principal Engineer, VMware Storage

Interview Overview
Christos Karamanolis stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about being one of the original architects of VMware Virtual San. He provided insight into the transition to Virtual San, fundamental changes that started years ago and deciding to drive the industry.

Interview Overview
Shashi Kiran stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about policy-based programmable networks and what’s happening with SDN. He provided insight into the central theme of networks with customers, how Cisco chose an approach to address the needs within the industry a few years ago and the concept of Cisco ACI.

Michael Kuhn
Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM

Interview Overview: Mike Kuhn and Eric Herzog
Mike Kuhn and Eric Herzog stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about expanding the Flash porfolio and integrating by design, charging a fair price for Flash and delivering hybrid and all-Flash solutions. They provided insight on the enterprise-ready software stack, how IBM is all about the right tool for the job and the relationship with Catalogic.

Mark Lewis
CEO, Formation Data

Interview Overview
Mark Lewis stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about his startup Formation Data and what’s happening within the ecosystem. He provided insight into the mega trends and how enterprise IT is stuck in old legacy models.

Ping Li
General Partner, Accel Partners

Interview Overview
Ping Li stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about the many trends starting to come together. He provided insight into how many different types of technologies are merging together, a new breed of startups within the marketplace and what the market looked like five years ago.

Paula Long
Co-Founder & CEO, DataGravity

Interview Overview
Paula Long stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about the trends she has noticed over the past year. She provided insight on what happens when you try to work with data and three things that prevent companies from going to the cloud, including performance, security and costs and how ClearSky Data is addressing these.

Scott Lowe
Co-Founder, ActualTech Media

Interview Overview
Scott Lowe and David Davis stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about Scott’s new book The Gorilla Guide, what ActualTech Media is doing within the market and how they are educating people about what they see in the industry. They provided insight into how people have changed roles within companies and conversations about hyperconverged solutions.

Interview Overview
Lori Nishiura Mackenzie stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and how to block gender biases. She provided insight into how women are often described through their personalities and man are described through their accomplishments.

Robin Matlock
CMO, VMware

Interview Overview
Robin Matlock stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about how they changed VMworld from last year and what lies in the upcoming years. She provided insight into the DevOps focus and how IT needs to change to be relevant for business.

Tom Matson
Director, Software Solution Sales

Interview Overview
Tom Matson and Jerry Melnick stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about how SIOS applies to big data analytics to solve problems, the SanDisk transformation and how they are working with SIOS. They provided insight into the SIOS demonstrations at VMworld, their relationship with VMware and how roles are overlapping with DevOps.

Jim McHugh
VP Marketing UCS, Cisco

Interview Overview
Jim McHugh stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Brian Gracely about how Cisco is figuring out how to bring compute, network and storage together. He provided insight into what Cisco is doing with software and how solutions are not just within the data center.

Jerry Melnick
COO, SIOS

Interview Overview
Jerry Melnick and Tom Matson stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about how SIOS applies to big data analytics to solve problems, the SanDisk transformation and how they are working with SIOS. They provided insight into the SIOS demonstrations at VMworld, their relationship with VMware and how roles are overlapping with DevOps.

Bob Muglia
CEO, Snowflake Computing

Interview Overview
Bob Muglia stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick and George Gilbert about
what Snowflake Computing does. He provided insight into the new data base solution they have designed for the cloud.

Interview Overview
Vish Mulchand stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the journey of 3PAR becoming part of HP Storage. He provided insight into the pace of announcements with 3PAR, the modular architecture, changes in how the industry is now handling storage and and what HP Storage is doing as VMworld.

Nelson Nahum
CEO, Zadara Storage

Interview Overview
Nelson Nahum stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and David Floyer about what Zadara Storage is doing and what makes them unique. He provided insight into offering services on premise and in the cloud, the benefits of customers choosing a storage service and the pressure of delivering services.

This was Nelson’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Ron Nash
CEO, Pivot3

Interview Overview
Ron Nash stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Brian Gracely about the trend of hyper-converged, what’s new with Pivot3 and how application teams are driving the industry. He provided insight into the importance of researching a new company before investing and what’s next for Pivot3 and its customers.

Craig Nunes
VP of Marketing, HP Storage

Interview Overview
Craig Nunes stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about why VMworld has become storage world and how 3PAR HPS1 was built for the cloud. He provided insight into how to keep pace with the changes in agility, what the container trend means to storage, the tipping point for the cost of Flash per gigabyte and whether start ups are solving point problems.

Dheeraj Pandey
CEO, Nutanix

Interview Overview
Dheeraj Pandey stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about how Nutanix is bringing the customer experience into the enterprise, how customers are willing to take risks and ways to make storage and virtualization invisible. He provided insight on ways the end user drives consumption, how startups can be successful in the enterprise and how he would lead VMware.

Ajay Patel
SVP, Product Development, VMware Cloud Services

Interview Overview
Ajay Patel stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Brian Gracely about the momentum at VMware and how it’s refreshing. He provided insight into the services that VMware Cloud Services offers, the recent announcements and the journey over the past two years.

This was Ajay’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Rich Petersen
Director of Software Marketing, SanDisk

Interview Overview
Rich Petersen stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and David Floyer about the transformation that SanDisk has gone through over the past five years. He provided insight into how they are addressing the storage latency issues at all levels and what they are doing at VMware.

Sanjay Poonen
EVP and GM, End-User Computing, VMware

Interview Overview
Sanjay Poonen stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about whether the key to success includes taking the complexities away and if VMware leads the mobile story. He provided insight into how they are handling the growth, what’s driving growth, the consumerization of business mobility and the enterprises that are not cloud native.

Ramesh Prabagaran
VP of Products and Partnerships, Viptela

Interview Overview
Ramesh Prabagaran stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about optimizing your network, why enterprise network is stagnant and solving the “one size fits all” enterprise mentality. He provided insight into how Viptela is revolutionizing WAN, the speed to get up and running with Viptela and how Viptela is disrupting the market.

This was Ramesh’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Pablo Roesch
Director of Technical Marketing, VMware

Interview Overview
Pablo Roesch and Sakthi Chandra stopped by theCUBe and chatted with Dave Vellante about the performance labs that allow conference attendees use their products. They provided insight into the infrastructure to run the labs and what EMC XtremIO is working on next.

Rodney Rogers
Founder/CEO, Virtustream

Interview Overview
Rodney Rogers stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about what happened with the Virtustream acquisition, how they were able to make the transition from enterprise to cloud and how customers are looking at a multi-cloud environment. He also provided insight into how to rationalize one cloud, the developer angle and what’s coming next for Virtustream.

This was Rodney’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Benny Schnaider
Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Ravello

Interview Overview
Benny Schnaider stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about Ravello’s role in the hybrid cloud discussion and their relationship with WMware. He provided insight into what customers are asking for in terms of cloud, understanding the use cases of CloudBursting and how containers fit in with Ravello.

This was Benny’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Greg Smith
Sr Director, Product and Technical Marketing, Nutanix

Interview Overview
Greg Smith and Bob Dussault stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about infrastructure challanges at Hallmark before Nutanix, how they transitioned to Nutanix and the reason for hyper converged. They provided insight into what to consider when going through this type of transition, changes in security and the DevOps story from Nutanix.

This was Greg’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Pete Sonsini
General Partner, NEA

Interview Overview
Pete Sonsini stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about how he tackles deciding which opportunities to invest in. He provided insight into how technologies will become a reality, the unsuccessful trends NEA invested in, their investment with 3PAR and other current investments.

Jonathan Stinson
System Administrator, Hendrick Medical

Interview Overview
Jonathan Stinson stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the hands-on experience he’s getting at VMworld and new solutions he is looking into. He provided insight into how Hendrick Medical is 80% virtualized, how they are constantly improving and what they have virtualized.

Rob Strechay
Director of Product Marketing & Management, HP Storage

Interview Overview
Rob Strechay stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about what hyperconvergence is to HP Storage and what they announced a few weeks ago. He provided insight into whether virtualization of VMware is really that simple, what all the mega trends mean, HP’s relationship with EVO and VSAN, and what’s coming next for HP Storage.

Paul Strong
CTO Global Field, VMware

Interview Overview
Paul Strong and Sheryl Chamberlain stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about Vm Women’s Leadership Program, the state of the conversation about woman leadership and the diversity project. They provided insight into the cultural shift, migration between careers and what they would change in elementary schools.

This was Paul’s first time visiting theCUBE!

George Teixeira
President & CEO, DataCore Software

Interview Overview
George Teixeira and Dustin Fennell stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the CIO perspective, the evolution of architecture and why Dustin moved to DataCore. They provided insight into the current trends in hyperconvergence, where VMware VSAN stands and how having fewer resources changes an environment.

This was George’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Brad Tompkins
CEO, VMUG

Interview Overview
Brad Tompkins stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about what lead him to becoming the CEO of VMUG. He provided insight into their plan to get to the next level, keeping up with everything VMware does and how VMware sees the value in VMUG.

This was Brad’s first time visiting theCUBE.

Jayshree Ullal
President & CEO, Arista Networks

Interview Overview
Jayshree Ullal stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about Arista Networks going from a private company to a public company. She provided insight into SDN in the beginning, how software drives the industry and how the focus has become about workloads and workflows.

Narayan Venkat
CMO, Tegile

Interview Overview
Narayan Venkat stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and David Floyer about what Tegile does and how they can work with all Flash and hybrid within the same system. He provided insight into looking at the performance and economics when deploying a system and how they are differentiating from other storage companies.

Ed Walsh
CEO, Catalogic Software

Interview Overview
Ed Walsh and Charles Fan stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the keynote addresses, the relationship between cataloging and developing and simplyfying the work flows. They provided insight into the state of automated management, how Catalogic fits into VMware’s storage strategy and the amount of data about data.

Interview Overview
Ed Walsh and Bina Hallman stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about what IBM and Catalogic Software have brought to the conference. They provided insight into the conversations with customers and the problems they are helping to solve and what Catalogic Software and IBM are doing together.

Shaun Walsh
VP Corporate Marketing and NA America Sales, QLogic

Interview Overview
Shaun Walsh stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely about why he moved to QLogic and the state of fibre channel. He provided insight into the status of the 25 gig ethernet, hwo the traditional OEM is changing, hyperconvergence trends and what’s going on with the open compute space.

Andy Warfield
CTO & Co-Founder, Coho Data

Interview Overview
Andy Warfield stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about what Coho Data is up to, the larger challenges of storage and how many customers are trusting storage to smaller companies. He provided insight into the dynamic between latency and capacity, how Coho Data addresses the question of workloads and “appliansizing” with AWS.

Howie Xu
EIR / Investor

Interview Overview
Howie Xu stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about what’s happening with hybrid cloud, the difference between resilience and agility and the impact of containers to virtualization. He provided insight into DevOps and the potential for vertical integration, why security architecture is the next big thing and the focus on business value.

Interview Overview
Renee Zaugg stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about the VMwomen Panel. She provided insight into unconscious bias, how change requires intention, the disruption required by leaders in the industry and working unbias practices into your daily schedule.

Interview Overview
Alastair Cooke and Cody Bunch of vBrownBag spoke on a panel hosted by Stu Miniman. They discussed who vBrownBag is, how open source means community generated knowledge, and how the relationship with VMware has changed. They provided insight into popular topics that vBrownBag covers, career development and how all of their content is free to consume.

Interview Overview
Mike Foley, Hemma Prafullchandra and Simon Crosby stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Edward Haletky of The Virtualization Practice about putting security on an untrusted platform. They discussed how software has often been placed on untrusted platforms and whether this may be continued in the future. Mike pointed out that security is a practice, not an action.

Interview Overview
Kenny Wilder, Tod Huber and Chris Skaling stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about why they are looking at VMware. They shared details about the size of the IT team at Master Lock Co., what IT is like in Fulton County Schools and what FusionStorm focuses on with VMware.

Interview Overview
Brandon Philips, Nick Weaver and Sheng Liang stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Brian Gracely about building containers. They discussed the opportunity they identified in building a new foundation for containers.

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Chris Miller, Gaetan Castelein and Raj Yavatkar stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about what AdvizeX and VMware is working on. They discussed what hyperconverged means to them and their clients and the trends emerging quickly in the marketplace.

Interview Overview
John Troyer, Amy Lewis and Matt Brender stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Scott Lowe of VMware about when you knew that virtualization was the right direction. They discussed the transition to blogging, tips on making transitions and what you look for as a senior technologist.

Interview Overview
Matt Stine, Kevin Fishner and Radhesh Balakrishnan stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Brian Gracely about what modern day apps look like, what the new applications mean when talking about software structure and how to explain your platform to customers. They discussed the difference between opinionated versus non-opinionated platforms.

Interview Overview
Shiv Agarwal, Madhura Maskasky and John Blumenthal stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Brian Gracely about the types of problems they are able to solve using VMware. They discussed how customers make sense of certain solutions, working in a disruptive space and the challenges of data science.

Get ready for VMworld 2015 with these theCUBE interviews from VMworld 2014